Early-stage deals accounted for 38% of the investments made by smart money VCs into fintech companies between 2015-2016. We identified 59 distinct fintech startups that received seed or Series A funding from a smart money investor and mapped them according to 8 main categories they’re operating in.

Slack users fired up

In yesterday’s newsletter, we had a post from someone saying Slack is a productivity killer. It was an interesting post so we shared it.

A lot of you wrote in with impassioned arguments for/against Slack. Please let the author of the post know. We use Hipchat at CB Insights so most of it didn’t make sense to me.